Mr Kwasi Amankwaah, Eastern Regional Information Services Department official, has urge Ghanaians to acquire the new Biometric Passport when it takes off in April this year.
He said the current passport would remain valid until Januar…
The Cape Cost-Elmina-Mankesim-Twifo Praso branch of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has appealed to President Mills to help reduce the recently increased road tolls, to make life bearable for them
The drivers made the ap…
The Asante-Mampong Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Daniel Ohyeamang, has warned against arbitrary increases in transport fares by commercial drivers and asked them to revert to fares they were taking prior to the new road tolls.
D…
A 34-year-old farmer who attempted to rape a 70-year-old woman has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour by the Asamankese Circuit Court.
Kofi Nti, also known as Sakora, pleaded guilty to three counts of unlawful entr…
Amasaman Police are investigating circumstances surrounding the death of two well-drillers, Isaac Mensah, 35, and Seth Quaye Addo, 50.
Their bodies were found in a well, which both have been contracted to drill.
Police sources sa…
A 49-year-old corn miller, Richard Gumanu allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday when he discovered his wife was having an affair with her nephew.
Gumanu was found hanged with his bed sheet at his residence at Gyankrom, a suburb of Ns…
Collins Antwi, a security man at a clinic at Hoviefe near Ho, has appeared before a Ho Magistrate Court charged with murder.
His plea was not taken and was remanded until 16 February.
Ms. Sylvia Okan, Inspector of Polic…
Nkatimba Dundisi, a 45-year-old farmer, has been arrested at Funsi in the Wa East District for defiling a seven-year-old Class One.
He is alleged to have lured the girl into his room under the pretext of giving her groundnut cakes and…
A 20-year-old member of a robbery gang who shot and killed a six-month-old pregnant woman at Duase New Site near Kumasi in May last year, has been jailed 110 years in hard labour by a Kumasi Circuit Court.
Mohammed Musah alias "R…
Two illegal gold miners, Nuredeen Ibrahim, 24, and Kofi Iddrisu, 33, on Friday appeared before Takoradi Circuit Court "A" for allegedly conspiring to commit crime, carrying and using offensive weapons, causing unlawful harm and stealing fi…
The worldwide cancer burden is projected to reach 26 million new diagnoses in the year 2030 and 17 million deaths, with the most rapid increases occurring in low and middle-income countries, according to the International Union Against Can…
A three-member delegation from MTN Ghana on Thursday paid a familiarisation tour of Ghana News Agency (GNA) to acquaint itself of the national wire service's operations and to strengthen the relationship between the two institutions.
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A 15-year old girl died in a tragic accident at Sefwi-Nkateaso near Awaso when an old pit from which she was digging red clay collapsed on her.
As has been the traditional practice by typical rural population, 15-year Akosua Boadua …
Two persons have been arrested by the Koforidua Municipal Police Command for setting fire at 'Pintoa Wala' in Koforidua on Thursday to obstruct the construction of an ultra modern Bus terminal for the metro buses.
The Pintoa Wala are…
The health of students of Achimota School in Accra is under threat as its entire sewerage system is collapsed forcing human excreta and other hazardous materials to gush out through chambers on campus.
Since the emergence of the prob…
The Police were offered the last chance on Thursday to produce a bill of indictment and summary of evidence on the five soldiers allegedly connected in the murder of a bank official,Mr. Rokko Frimpong.
The Osu District Magistrate's C…
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday said its UN Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Ghana had airlifted 150 metric tons of urgently needed relief items to victims of the Haiti earthquake.
A statement issued b…
Bayerebon-Number-One, a community in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai District, has been thrown into a state of shock, grief and mourning, following the discovery of the dead body of a 29-year old farmer, who went missing a month ago.
Yaw…
A 48-year-old farmer at Nsiakrom near Sefwi-Bethlehem, Kwame Kusi, standing trial at the Bibiani Magistrate Court for arson, has been remanded into prison custody.
He pleaded guilty to the charge but with explanation.
Police Detec…
The key to deepening democracy and preventing conflict and under-development in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is empowering the media to expose bad governance in society.
Speaking at the regional meeting on t…
Tragedy befell Kyereyaaso, a farming community in the Atwima-Mponua District when a 42-year old, Kofi Acheampong, a chainsaw operator, was trapped to death by a falling tree.
The deceased had gone to a forest reserve in the area wit…
Advocacy programmes for the Ghana Federation of the Disabled received a boost on Thursday when the Danish government through its aid agency, DANIDA, launched a programme to improve on the Federation's performance.
Organizations which…
Mrs. Ellen Semenhyia Acheampong, Chief Executive of Se Menhyia Herbal Clinic at Kasoa in the Central Region has called on the government to support traditional herbal medicine practitioners to export their products.
She said this wou…
Mr Peter Kwadwo Owuadzi Mensah, a legal practitioner, has suggested the need for litigants to bear the cost of appearing before the Judicial Committee sittings of the Regional Houses of Chiefs.
Addressing a workshop for members of the…
Women from the former Nkonya and Alavanyo feuding communities, on Wednesday organised a peace rally at Nkonya-Tayi in the Volta Region to consolidate their harmonious co-existence.
The previous sworn enemies, who were brought together w…
The Decentralised concept of governance holds the key to the rapid development of the country side, Mr Mark Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister has noted.
"The concept has the major provision of government mandating its various arms in …
Fire last Sunday afternoon devastated the Nkwanta market destroying about 85 per cent of infrastructure and wares running into millions of cedis.
The whirlwind-propelled fire disaster recorded no casualty but investigations have commence…
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), on Thursday appealed to the Minister of Roads and Highways to review the recently introduced toll rates downwards to enable vehicle owners to break even.
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Kwame Noi Koranteng, a 70-year-old private school teacher at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District, on Wednesday appeared before a Mpraeso Circuit Court on a charge of defiling his 16-year-old former pupil.
Koranteng, who pleaded not guilty, has…
The Chieftaincy Act 759 of 2008 makes destoolment of chiefs a serious business exclusive to kingmakers with the consent of the chief concerned.
Mr Peter Owuadzi Mensah, Counsel for the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, who made this k…
The Chieftaincy Act 759 of 2008 makes destoolment of chiefs a serious business exclusive to kingmakers with the consent of the chief concerned.
Mr Peter Owuadzi Mensah, Counsel for the Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs, who made this …
Mr Joseph Z. Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has said plans were advanced to reactivate the defunct Worawora Nurses Training School into a Midwifery Training institution.
He said feasibility studies on infrastructure were underway…
Mr. Henry Bagah, Wa Municipal Environmental Health Officer, has called for the arrest and prosecution of people who allow their animals to roam the streets and cause fatal motor accidents leading to the death of motorists and other road us…
The medical director in charge of the Twifo Praso Government Hospital, Dr. John Benjamin Annan, has expressed concern about the rate at which teenage girls in the area carry out abortions with a particular birth control drug.
He said las…
Mr Joseph Z. Amenowode, the Volta Regional Minister, has said plans were advanced to reactivate the defunct Worawora Nurses Training School into a Midwifery Training institution.
He said feasibility studies on infrastructure were underwa…
The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) on Thursday organised a day's workshop on block farming in Sekondi, for Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief executives and agriculture personnel in the Western Region.
Speaking at the wo…
The Upper West Regional Police Command, on Wednesday apologised to members of the Regional Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for arresting Mr James Donkor, a journalist in Wa on October 24, last year.
The Command also apo…
Mr Ambrose Dery, Deputy Minority Leader on Thursday, expressed the need for government to decentralise legal education to create fair access to prospective law students across the country.
He, therefore, called on the Ghana Legal Council…
Heavy duty truck drivers plying the Adomi Bridge route have appealed to the Ghana Standards Board to examine the axle weighing equipment on the Adom Bridge.
They expressed worry about disparities they encounter when the same loadedtruck …
Many children still roam the streets of Koforidua selling during school hours in spite of the Capitation Grant and other educational intervention by government to ensure that every child of school going age has access to education.
These…
The Yendi Municipal Assembly in the Northern Region has held a three-day performance review workshop as part of processes towards the development of the Medium Term Development Plan for the Municipality, under the national development poli…
A three-day African Regional Conference on the Right of Access to Information opens at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra this Sunday.
Organised by the Carter Centre and other African partners, the conference is to advance the ri…
Mr Charles Oti-Prempeh, the District Chief Executive for Amansie West, has advocated the use of local language for teaching at the pre-school and lower primary levels.
He said there should be no doubt that this could significantl…
Participants at a special sensitization programme on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) at Jasikan have advocated for conscious capacity building strategies for stakeholders towards a steady growth and development of the latest approach …
The Hohoe Midwifery Training School risks closure due to an eminent water crisis, Ms Narki Doku, Principal of the School has said.
Speaking at the matriculation of its third batch 83 students for the Diploma in Midwifery programme i…
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Amansie-West, Mrs Grace Addo, has presented items valued at about GH¢20,000 in support of five health facilities in the area.
These included two generators, mower, air-conditioners, laptop computer and a…
American Evangelist Richard Roberts, who is also Chief Executive of Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association on Wednesday, declared that the yoke overhanging Ghana was broken, signifying spiritual and material prosperity for the more than 22 …
Middlesex University in the United Kingdom is working on the possibility of establishing a campus in Ghana to serve all of West Africa.
To this end, the Middlesex University Alumni Association in Ghana would be officially launched at …
The Poku Transport Endowment Fund on Wednesday presented an amount of GH¢ 2,500 to five brilliant but needy students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in support of their education.
The beneficiari…
Professor Mike Oquaye, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, has called on President Atta Mills to save Achimota School lands from encroachers.
Prof. Oquaye who said this in a statement presented to the house on Wednesday noted that th…